The quintuplet, while reacting to the setting up of a committee by the National Chairman, Adamu Mu’azu, to woo them back, said that it was rather too late for them to think of returning to the party.
Three of the governors, who spoke to
Vanguard, last night, pointed out that there was nothing the party could do to
win them back, as they were already settling down in their new party and for
good.
Kano State governor, Musa Rabiu Kwankwaso, said it amounted to sheer wishful thinking for the party to imagine that they would return to its fold after all it did to them.
Kano State governor, Musa Rabiu Kwankwaso, said it amounted to sheer wishful thinking for the party to imagine that they would return to its fold after all it did to them.
Kwankwaso, who spoke through his
Director of Media and Press Affairs, Mr. Halilu Dantiye, noted that although
the chairman of the party, Mu’azu, was his friend, it was impossible for him to
go back to the PDP.
The governor said: “It is a wishful
thinking by what remains of the PDP to assume that His Excellency, Governor
Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso or any of the five governors will return to the party. No
doubt, Mu’azu is a good friend to Kwankwaso but it is late for the PDP.”
Adding his voice to the matter,
Adamawa State governor, Murtala Nyako, said it was unthinkable for him or his
colleagues to return to PDP after signing up for the APC.
The governor disclosed that he had already taken firm steps to make APC the ruling party in his state and was not in any way contemplating returning to the PDP.
The governor disclosed that he had already taken firm steps to make APC the ruling party in his state and was not in any way contemplating returning to the PDP.
Speaking through his Director of
Press and Public Affairs, Mr. Ahmad Sajoh, Nyako made it clear that he was
pre-occupied with nurturing the APC into a veritable tool for national
development rather than thinking of going back to his former party.
Sajoh noted: “A lot of water has
passed under the bridge. It is no longer about who leads the PDP but about the
credibility and ability of the party’s leadership to provide Nigeria with
development options.
“Governor Nyako has already taken
firm steps to effectively position the APC as the ruling party in Adamawa State
and there is no going back on it. Building the APC into a veritable tool for
national development is the governor’s major concern for now.”
Meanwhile, Governor Ibrahim Shema of
Katsina State said, yesterday, that nobody can stampede President Goodluck
Jonathan to declare his interest in contesting the 2015 election, saying that
Jonathan would make his intention known at the appropriate time.
Shema also said that the
reconciliation being initiated by the National Chairman of the People’s
Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, will lead to the return of
Governors Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara; Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko of Sokoto; Musa
Kwankwaso of Kano, Murtala Nyako of Adamawa and Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers
states, who decamped to the opposition, All Progressives Congress, APC, to PDP.
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